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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1901
Page
2
A miscellany item notes W K Vanderbilt donating to a university in Nashville, then discusses a long electrical transmission line in California, a French postal rule on reading backside writing, and a Rossini family suicide. It ends with a quote on education and value of college experience over money.
The article surveys New Zealand defense consulting proposing about 25000 a year for protection, with gun purchases at key ports and imperial aid possibly used. It quotes Edgar Saltus on department store excesses, and notes a treasury warrant for a 1 cent salary to Frank H. Lynch for postal service travel between Mineral Point and Dodgeville for a four year term.
Prof Farrington returning from abroad with a remarkable Indiana find a talatu tite fragment marked by scientists and a six foot column from a specimen grew five thousand four hundred years since. He estimates the St Louis monument may reveal the time taken for its formation. Pekin defense scenes show silk sandbags and improvised munitions using candlesticks and parlor ornaments. Ancient Crimean weapons also appear as a menace to attackers.
Cabinet meets as Queen presides and Don Carlos rumors spark unease. Azcárraga reports steps against Carlists, coast gunboats patrol for munitions, police forestall insurrection. Insurgents raid Badalona while Carlist bands appear in the mountains. Villadelarias is arrested. A naval disaster near misses underline sea perils and the limits of watertight compartments.
The piece argues the Australian federation will mirror the American model with a powerful House of Representatives. It notes the executive will be a partisan ministry with no vetoes in the House, and the Senate’s limited revenue power and possible obstruction leading to joint sessions.
A Cleveland judge granted a permanent injunction halting an city contract for a new polio signal system amid evidence suggesting council corruption through money influence. The ruling supports court action against fraudulent acts by representatives, with appeals possible if higher court finds corruption.
Frank Williams of Johnstown Pennsylvania bequeaths nearly 300000 to Le high university where he studied. The fund to be named for him will loan income to poor students who sign notes. Notes are to run at most ten years and upon repayment funds return to the endowment to grow.
A health and education debate rises as medical societies urge reform of public schooling burdens. Homeopathic and other physicians argue against heavy mental workload in short terms, warning of long term effects on children.
The article notes that many young women are ill suited for school tasks after leaving lower public schools. It criticizes excessive mental strain from concentrated study and poor physical exercise, urging fewer subjects and life arrangements to protect mind and body. It calls for better spelling, writing, grammar, and practical math knowledge.
Report notes accidents sustained by American forces in Saint Paul, detailing incidents involving elemental forces and the toll on personnel. Specifics on dates, locations, and outcomes are limited in the fragment.
The text claims Standard Oil controls the entire U S oil output plus pipelines plants and related assets. It asserts ownership of railroads steamships coal and iron mines and stock in trusts. It notes the president's annual income may exceed most individuals except possibly the Sultan of Morocco.
Colonel John M. Brooke, designer of the ram Merrimac and pioneer of modern naval warfare, lives at Lexington as a professor emeritus of physics at the Virginia Military Institute. Now 79, he remains vigorous and walks daily from his city outskirts home to the post office at the same hour each morning.
Mr Plowden, the Metropolitan magistrate of London born in Meerut India where the mutiny began, recently completed his fifty sixth year. He amuses public galleries with witty remarks on death and life. He is known as Friend of the Bees and spends spare time among beehives in his garden. He reportedly uses bees in a poetic and mystical way in a new drama he is writing.
The Lexington Virginia house once home to Stonewall Jackson now serves as a tenement housing many families in cramped conditions. The famed Sunday school he taught black parishioners continues to operate and flourishes despite the changes.
Rutgers freshman B F Shivier, hazed by about twenty sophomores, was packed in a large packing crate with excelsior and cartoons, dressed as a tramp, gagged with his handkerchief, and left on a residence doorstep. He refuses to identify his attackers, and the faculty is urged to find and punish them.
In North Carolina and Georgia highland districts a remote clan labeled clay eaters is described as predating civilization. McGovern notes their cadaverous faces, isolation, and rum-smug moonshine lifestyle with white oily clay as their staple and infrequent seasonal work despite social ties and occasional gatherings.
A visitor details a squalid dwelling with torn walls stuffed with rags and clothing. A broken plank floor, no proper furniture, and a crude wooden bed frame with a home made mattress dominate the sparse living space. A corncob bed and pine straw provide sleeping space for a large family of children.
A Boston woman mailed a letter to her son in Manila on January 10. After discovering the address was incomplete, the Boston post office coordinated with San Francisco and Manila officials to trace the letter. By January 18 the letter was traced to its likely arrival and delivery path, and the missing address details were supplied. The letter has now been found and communications have been sent to the sender.
A British detachment in West Africa near Lima Nigeria was ambushed by locals. Officers Colt Jowry-Cole Capis Tuadie and Bryan were struck by poisoned arrows. Dr Thampaen treated the wounds by sucking out the poison with the blood, saving all wounded men. fifteen were hit in total. The doctor later suffered ill effects from the poison.
Casey by name was appointed to a government post needing a lawyer. The Law Society benchers appointed a special examiner. When asked what he knew of law he admitted ignorance. The examiner swore he answered all questions correctly, and he was admitted to the bar.
The Philadelphia Record notes carp are plentiful along the Delaware waterfront with hundreds of men angling daily. Anglers reportedly haul up to a hundred pounds of carp in a day, tossing live fish into tubs and beer barrels before carting them through the downtown water district, while Russians ignore the catch.
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